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Market opening
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 16/01/2020
» The Bang Kham Floating Market has been officially opened in Lop Buri's Ban Mi district last week. Located on the bank of the Bang Kham River at Wat Khung Tha Lao, the market was founded around the end of last year with the cooperation between the temple and the local community of Ban Bang Kham.
Growing poison
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 02/12/2019
» Sunant Somjak, 58, shook his head in dismay when I mentioned to him the farmers who still want to use hazardous chemicals like glyphosate, paraquat and chlorpyrifos. Standing against the chemicals, he believes that killing lives or even harming Mother Nature is a sin.
White light
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 28/11/2019
» After the entrance gates closed at 5pm, people waited outside the Chiang Rai landmark of Wat Rong Khun for a much anticipated light and sound show organised for the first time since the temple's 1977 opening.
Past lives
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 08/04/2019
» Pink canopy tents were erected over two opened pits in a small sugar-apple plantation not far from the Central Mosque, or Masjid Ban Suan, in Muang district of Lop Buri. At first glance, it looked like nobody was here. Then someone emerged from the site. He had a broken piece of clay pot in his hand.
Some like it hot
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 04/10/2018
» I dipped my hand in a private hot-spring pool in the headquarters of Chae Son National Park in Lampang to test the heat. The temperature was about 40C. It was too hot at first, but for a short while it seemed to be tolerable.